Collateral damage is a fact of war and calling plausible collateral damage a terrorist attack is weaking the meaning of the term or betraying your dishonesty.
Even predigious use of arms and chemical weapons against civilians takes years to be recognized as being intentional. War is messy. War is terrible. And even worse: war is a negative sum game.
Israel has been doing terrorist attacks decades before Hamas ever existed. It is not collateral damage when the army does exactly what Israeli leaders say, which is to kill babies, raping Palestinians on cam. Nobody is stupid enough to believe that destroying the majority of civilian infrastructure is collateral damage, raping Palestinians on cam is collateral damage, destroying the majority of the agricultural fields is collateral damage, 83% of dead Gazans being civilians is collateral damage. 83% of civilians dead is a genocide-level percentage.
Collateral damage is a fact of war and calling plausible collateral damage a terrorist attack is weaking the meaning of the term or betraying your dishonesty.
Even predigious use of arms and chemical weapons against civilians takes years to be recognized as being intentional. War is messy. War is terrible. And even worse: war is a negative sum game.
Israel has been doing terrorist attacks decades before Hamas ever existed. It is not collateral damage when the army does exactly what Israeli leaders say, which is to kill babies, raping Palestinians on cam. Nobody is stupid enough to believe that destroying the majority of civilian infrastructure is collateral damage, raping Palestinians on cam is collateral damage, destroying the majority of the agricultural fields is collateral damage, 83% of dead Gazans being civilians is collateral damage. 83% of civilians dead is a genocide-level percentage.